Impatiens plant named &#39;imdobicre&#39;

ABSTRACT

A new  Impatiens  plant, characterised particularly as to novelty by a strong and upright growing habit, freely branching, resulting in a compact growing habit with large, double, red and white flowers, flowering above the foliage.

LATIN NAME OF THE GENUS AND SPECIES OF THE PLANT CLAIMED

Impatiens walleriana

VARIETAL DENOMINATION

‘Imdobicre’

BACKGROUND OF THE NEW PLANT

The present invention comprises a new distinct cultivar of Impatiens,botanically known as Impatiens walleriana.

The new Impatiens is a product of a planned breeding program conductedin Enkhuizen, Netherlands. The new Impatiens cultivar has a compactgrowing type, early flowering, floriferous with large, double flowersand with attractive foliage.

The present cultivar originated from a pollination made in 2002, of aproprietary Impatiens selection identified as ‘T2828-1,’ not patented,as the female, or seed parent, with a proprietary Impatiens selectionidentified as ‘T2830-2,’ not patented, as the male, or pollen parent.

The present cultivar has been repeatedly asexually reproduced bycuttings in Enkhuizen, Netherlands, in Angers, France, in Gilroy, U.S.A.over a two year period. The distinctive characters of this new Impatiensare stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations ofasexual reproduction. It takes 6 to 8 weeks to produce a finished plant,depending on the temperature.

This new Impatiens plant is an annual in most climatical zones in theU.S., only in zones 9 and 10 it is a perennial plant.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

This new Impatiens plant is illustrated by the accompanying photographicdrawing which shows blooms, buds and foliage of the plant in full color,the color showing being as true as can be reasonably obtained byconventional photographic procedures.

DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CULTIVAR

The following detailed descriptions set forth the distinctivecharacteristics of this new Impatiens. The data which defines thesecharacteristics were collected from asexual reproductions carried out inEnkhuizen, Netherlands. The plant history was taken on 25 week oldplants, blossomed under natural light in the field.

Color readings were taken in the office under ambient light. Colorreferences are primarily to the R.H.S. Color Chart of The RoyalHorticultural Society of London.

Plants of the new Impatiens differ primarily from the plants of thefemale parent selection in the following characteristics:

Plants of the new Impatiens have red and white flowers with only petals,whereas the plants of the female have red and white flowers with pollencap and stigma.

Plants of the new Impatiens differ primarily from the male plantselection in the following characteristics:

Plants of the new Impatiens have red and white flowers with only petals,whereas the plants of the male have red and white flowers with pollencap and stigma. TABLE 1 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NEW CULTIVAR ‘IMDOBICRE’AND A SIMILAR CULTIVAR ‘Imdobicre’ ‘Balfiespray’ Flower size LargeMedium sized Flower color Red and white Red purple and light pink Planthabit Outward spreading and Outward spreading and flat mounded

-   Parentage:    -   -   Female parent.—‘T2828-1,’ not patented.        -   Male parent.—‘T2830-2,’ not patented.-   Propagation:    -   -   Type cutting.—Terminal cuttings.        -   Time to initiate roots.—10 -12 days at 20 degrees C.        -   Time to produce a rooted cutting.—4 weeks.        -   Root description.—Fine, fibrous and white in color.-   Plant description:    -   -   General appearance.—Compact, mounded and outwardly            spreading. Appropriate for 12 cm pots and larger containers.        -   Growth and branching habit.—Compact growing, well branched            plant habit.        -   Crop time.—6-8 weeks, starting from an unrooted cutting in a            10.5 cm pot.        -   Plant height.—14.6 cm.        -   Plant diameter or spread.—41 cm.-   Lateral branches:    -   -   Length.—About 15 cm.        -   Diameter.—About 4 mm.        -   Internode length.—About 2.7 cm.        -   Texture.—Smooth.        -   Color.—187B.-   Foliage description:    -   -   Arrangement.—Simple, alternate.        -   Length.—About 4.7 cm.        -   Width.—About 2.7 cm.        -   Shape.—Ovate.        -   Apex.—Acuminate.        -   Base.—Attenuate.        -   Margin.—Serrate, rounded.        -   Texture.—Glabrous, smooth.        -   Venation pattern.—Pinnate, arcuate.        -   Color, developing and fully expanded foliage, upper            surface.—147A.        -   Color, developing and fully expanded foliage, lower            surface.—147C.        -   Venation.—— Upper surface: 147C — Lower surface: 147B.        -   Petiole, length.—About 1.1 cm.        -   Petiole, diameter.—About 2 mm.        -   Color.—37B.-   Flower description:    -   -   Flower type and flowering habit.—Numerous and consistently            large fully double flowers.

Freely and continuously flowering. Flower buds open similar to a rose infullness; flowers rounded. Flowers arise from leaf axils. Typicallyabout 17 flowers and flower buds per lateral branch. Flowers positionedabove and beyond the foliage and typically face mostly outward. Flowerslast about five to seven days under greenhouse conditions. Flowers notpersistent. Flowers not fragrant.

-   -   -   Flowering season.—Year round under greenhouse conditions. In            the garden, flowering is continuous from Spring until Fall.        -   Flower size.—— Diameter: About 4 cm — Depth: About 1.9 cm.

-   Flower buds:    -   -   Length, at stage for showing color.—About 1 cm.        -   Diameter, at stage for showing color.—About 8 mm.        -   Shape.—Ovoid.        -   Color.—55A and 56D.

-   Petals:    -   -   Quantity/arrangement.—About 28 per flower; imbricate.        -   Length, outer petals.—About 2.3 cm.        -   Width, outer petals.—About 2.1 cm.        -   Shape.—Oval to obovate.        -   Apex.—Emarginate to retuse.        -   Base.—Shortly attenuate.        -   Margin.—Entire.        -   Texture, upper and lower surfaces: Velvety, smooth.        -   Color.—— When opening, upper surface: Main color: 46B;            Second color: 69D — When opening, lower surface: Main color:            42D; Second color: 69D — Fully opened, upper surface: Main            color: 46B; Second color: 69D — Fully opened, lower surface:            Main color: 42D; Second color: 69D.

-   Spurs:    -   -   Length.—About 2.6 cm.        -   Color.—144C.

-   Sepals:    -   -   Quantity/arrangement.—Five in a single whorl.        -   Calyx length.—About 3 mm.        -   Calyx diameter.—About 2 mm.        -   Shape.—Elliptic.        -   Apex.—Acute.        -   Margin.—Entire.        -   Texture, upper and lower surfaces.—Smooth.        -   Color.—— Upper surface: 145A — Lower surface: 145B.

-   Peduncles:    -   -   Length.—About 1.6 cm.        -   Diameter.—About 1.5 mm.        -   Angle.—About 45 degrees to the lateral branch.        -   Strength.—Moderately strong.        -   Color.—146C.

-   Reproductive organs: None observed.

-   Seed/fruit development: Seed and fruit development has not been    observed.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named ‘Imdobicre,’ as substantially illustrated and described herein. 